PAKISTAN: Around three quarters of those affected by this year's floods are still without shelter and nearly three million are in urgent need of food aid. But relief operations may have to be closed down because funds are running out.

DISASTERS: More than 1.5 billion people will be at risk from calamities such as earthquakes, cyclones or floods by 2050, but human casualties and economic losses can be minimised if nations invest now in disaster prevention, a World Bank report says.

GLACIERS: More than a billion people living in Asia's major river basins are at risk as glaciers in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region melt due to the effects of climate change, the findings of three new scientific studies show.

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